As we look ahead into the final days of 2025, San Diego’s weather dance continues with a brisk chill but promises a gusty performance come Sunday. According to the NWS Forecast Office in San Diego, Saturday is keeping jackets firmly on San Diegans as temperatures remain about 5 to 10 degrees below the seasonal average. But the weather plot thickens into Sunday and Monday, as Santa Ana conditions intensify, ushering in northeast gusts that may reach 50 to 55 mph across higher elevations and desert slopes.
Lingering from the holidays, the National Weather Service forecast discussion indicates that the showers seen since Christmas Eve are easing off, making way for a drier spell with “periods of weak to moderate strength gusty Santa Ana winds for Sunday through Tuesday.” A slight warming will accompany these offshore flows on Monday and Tuesday, so that you might get by with just a sweater instead of a winter coat. However, as the weather narrative unfolds, a low-pressure system waiting in the wings could steal the show with precipitation likely to return from Wednesday through Friday.
The frosty temperatures of today are expected to rise modestly by Sunday, climbing into the mid-to-upper 60s for coastal and inland areas, according to the same weather discussion. However, underneath the clear skies of the nighttime, we’re diving back into colder waters with lows forecasted in the 40s and 30s for coastal and inland locales, respectively. The anticipated Santa Ana winds may keep the marine layer at bay, reducing nighttime and early morning coastal cloud coverage…